# Finamp — user reviews > 188 indexed App Store user reviews of Finamp by James Harvey, rated 4.59/5 from 161 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/finamp/id1574922594/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/finamp/id1574922594.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 130 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (15 of 188) ### 3/5 — Slow *2026-07-24, version 0.6.25* Parts of this app are great. It plays fairly large FLAC files instantly and offers a nice set of features, although I would like a Folder view. Unfortunately, it takes about 10 seconds to open an album (any album) when NOT in offline mode, thus rendering the app unusable, which is rather disappointing. I’m not sure what’s happening during those 10 seconds, as my container is completely idle and the Wi-Fi from my phone to container is 1Gbps (fast.com just reported 1.1Gbps from my iPhone somehow). ### 4/5 — A few updates would be fire *2026-07-18, version 0.6.25* Fire app but favoriting is suuuper unreliable. It would be nice if the player would remember what was last playing too. AM and Spotify recall music even if the app is closed and that feature would be really nice since listening through is difficult unless done in a sitting. Also, the songs tab should have All songs in the server, not just ones that aren’t in an album folder since shuffling through an entire library is nice. ### 3/5 — Can’t download individual songs *2026-07-13, version 0.6.25* Jellyfin seems to have a bug where the album sorting doesn’t work in 10.11.x so I can’t get metadata tagging to apply songs to an album. Real shame that we can’t download individual songs for offline mode that’s the only thing preventing this from being 5 stars! ### 4/5 — Please add autoplay for Songs *2026-07-03, version 0.6.25* Awesome app. Just wanted to write this review to hopefully get auto play in the Songs section. Currently when you select a specific song and then it ends, it stops and nothing plays after until you manually pick the next song. If autoplay could be incorporated here that would be wonderful ! ### 4/5 — Good app small bugs *2026-06-16, version 0.6.25* This is a great app for playing music stored on my Jellyfin server. It works much better than the Jellyfin app for playing music. The main advantage has unlike the official Jellyfin app is that continues playing when you put the phone down and the screen locks. The minor bug is with the off-line mode! It downloads and plays MP3 files perfectly. The problem is I have ripped all my CDs in Apple lossless using iTunes. Unfortunately, the app appears to download these files, but I’m not sure it actually does and it certainly does not play them off-line. ### 4/5 — Fantastic - but missing features. *2026-05-25, version 0.6.25* Title sums it up. Very useful and great app. However I couldn’t leave a 5 star review in good conscience because there is tons of room to improve. Metadata is the biggest hurdle to overcome. Once you have all your files metadata filled out, Finamp becomes 75-80% of Spotify, minus the bs that nobody asked for. Using something like MusicBrainz Picard should make this relatively simple. What I like: -No ads, no bloat, just music. -User Interface is beautiful. -Transcoding support. -Playlist support / shuffle support, all playback features you would expect from a music player. However, I feel the following features are missing and would be a welcome addition to Finamp. -Adaptive bitrate -controlling other devices playback on LAN also using Finamp.(audio from device one, control on device two similar to Spotify “connect” feature.) -in app EQ -song crossfading with granular control, ie 1s-10s crossfading Otherwise, Finamp is a pleasure to use and is a great self-hosted replacement for Spotify. Thank you for your contribution to the self hosting community. ### 2/5 — Great app but… *2026-05-08, version 0.6.25* It’s a great app but still long way to go to compete with Plexamp, it needs Folder search , eq, transcoding only limited to 320kbps etc. I don’t see where to donate. ### 2/5 — Close but no cigar *2026-04-18, version 0.6.25* Finamp is brilliant in that it connects to your Jellyfin server. However, the app crashes 20 to 30 seconds into playing any song. If your music player cannot play music, I think it’s time to pack it up. ### 4/5 — Main feature doesn't exist anymore? *2026-04-07, version 0.6.25* I used to love using the TestFlight version of Finamp, but I upgraded to the App Store version and now all of the buttons to download any music for offline play are gone. The option to downlad simply doesn't appear anymore. edit: I found it, it's in the artists section still but a bunch of the old download buttons are still gone ### 4/5 — Better than the native Jellyfin player *2026-03-10, version 0.6.25* Really good, a lot better than the native Jellyfin music player. My only note is that I can’t seem to put the player in landscape mode at all. Other than that, I appreciate the work put into this! ### 3/5 — Quite buggy *2026-02-28, version 0.6.25* Many bugs don’t seem to get fixed. ### 4/5 — Fantastic *2026-02-04, version 0.6.25* I love this app and am so glad it exists. I’m only frustrated because if you favorite a song, it’s very unreliable and often doesn’t save that you’ve favorited it. I’ve had more than once where I go through an album and find favorites, only to open the app later and find out it didn’t save any of my work. It would be find if it just showed an error message that the favorite didn’t go through, but instead it just confidently pretends like it worked until later ### 4/5 — It’s great for music *2026-01-04, version 0.6.25* I love it! It’s an amazing app. But it won’t detect as available my audiobook library. Please lemme listen to my audiobooks!! 🙏🏻 ### 3/5 — Decent *2025-12-04, version 0.6.25* Good player. When playing any song from the “songs” tab, it does not queue anything else up and pressing next does nothing. Annoying ### 5/5 — Perfetta *2025-11-04, version 0.6.25* Semplice e minimale, si integra senza problemi. Funziona anche il plugin per lo scrobbling su ListenBrainz! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Quite buggy *2026-05-15, version 0.6.25* Many bugs don’t seem to get fixed. Oh it seems abandoned. ### 1/5 — doesnt play most music *2026-04-09, version 0.6.25* useless ### 1/5 — Main feature doesn't exist anymore? *2026-03-24, version 0.6.25* I used to love using the TestFlight version of Finamp, but I upgraded to the App Store version and now all of the buttons to download any music for offline play are gone. The option to downlad simply doesn't appear anymore. ### 1/5 — Güncelleme *2026-01-23, version 0.6.25* Güncelleme sıklığı çok az en son güncelleme 1 yıl önce gelmiş bunun üzerine birçok şey eklendi sanırım github da görebiliyorum ama buraya eklenmediler ### 1/5 — Wird leider nicht mehr weiterentwickelt *2026-01-03, version 0.6.25* Ich habe diese App geliebt leider hängt sich die App mittlerweile immer bei Anwahl der Musik auf. Musik hören ist nur noch über Playlist möglich. Es ist echt schade. Es war die beste Musik App für Jellyfin ### 1/5 — Playlisten *2025-04-15, version 0.6.25* Probleme mit playlisten m3u. Werden falsch dargestellt als leer und nicht nutzbar zb playlisten mit 2000 Einträgen ### 1/5 — Errors *2025-03-27, version 0.6.25* Just getting error when trying to connect to 2 servers ### 1/5 — Too bad it just doesn't work on the iPhone *2025-02-05, version 0.6.25* So a new attempt, I would like the problem with the download to work. On my iPhone currently the download is finished in a very short time. Unfortunately this does not work and the download report does not show an error. I have tested the app on another device that does not run iOS So the whole thing works Too bad you could also fix it on the iPhone side. ### 1/5 — works every once in a while *2025-02-04, version 0.6.25* it’s a good app when it plays the songs i have but it usually doesn’t play my media ### 1/5 — Only Functioning with Music Folders *2024-12-07, version 0.6.25* I wanted to stream my audio books with this app. But my Folder Type in Jellyfin is Books for the tagging. The app only works with “Music” Folders. Please update and lmk ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Lightweight and clean *2026-07-19, version 0.6.25* No bloat or “AI” features no one asked for, just a straight forward app for playing music from Jellyfin. ### 5/5 — Huge thank you *2026-06-16, version 0.6.25* You are my hero for putting this together. How can we support your work? ### 5/5 — Works perfectly! Minor note *2026-04-01, version 0.6.25* It would be nice to have the option to prefer streaming direct on WiFi and transcoding audio on mobile but other than that this is the best music player for jellyfin I found! ### 5/5 — Basically perfect. *2026-02-26, version 0.6.25* My only suggestion would be to add a donation button somewhere in the app. ### 5/5 — Great for music *2026-02-17, version 0.6.25* This is much better for Jellyfin music than using the normal Jellyfin iOS app. It’s a great player for those who need something better for their Jellyfin music library ### 5/5 — Good Jellyfin Musicplayer *2026-02-11, version 0.6.25* Finamp is a good Jellyfin music player. As a feature request, please add support for CarPlay and an automatic download of the latest music added to the library. ### 5/5 — Very good *2026-01-19, version 0.6.25* The only feature that I wish on this app is when I download a music folder didnt lost the metadata name and folder organization, but it works very well and no ads ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-01-05, version 0.6.25* Out of all the apps I tried, Finamp is by far the most feature complete. I am blown away. ### 5/5 — Works great with only one annoying bug *2025-12-18, version 0.6.25* This is an awesome app My only real issue with it is that, when you activate offline mode, artist view doesn't function. You can still browse by albums and song but my library is huge and sometimes I forget the names of albums. Would love for that to be updated. ### 5/5 — Background Music!! *2025-11-14, version 0.6.25* I can’t believe the Jellyfin app doesn’t support background playback for music. This Finamp appworks perfectly. Tell your friends 5/5 would recommend. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*